All the grievances came up at that moment, and Malallow looked at Zhao Shinan and smiled like a fox: "Young master, am I shameless?"

Zhao Shinan looked cold with a hint of emptiness in his eyes, and looked at the mallow without saying a word. Mallow eyebrows and eyes were crooked with a smile: "Who is not shameless in this family? Your young grandmother, isn't it shameless to elope with someone? Poria, isn't it shameless to seduce you day and night with a bit of grace?"

Zhao Shinan didn't want to listen to what she said, so he turned around and left. Malallow hooked her lips and smiled: "I just hate, if you whip a little harder, she will die-"

Zhao Shinan was so painful that he could barely breathe, staggered in his steps, and ordered loudly: "Nailing this house to death." The subordinates looked at each other, and only reacted after a while, and hurriedly found the plank, Zhao Shinan stood coldly under the tree in the courtyard, looking at the windows of the mallow house were all nailed by the wooden board, and the door was also nailed, leaving only a small hole for eating, drinking, and Lazar. In the room, it was the woman's laughter, laughing so much that she shed tears, laughing heartily, laughing boldly and heartily.

When Mrs. Zhao heard the report of the subordinates, she hurriedly asked the aunt to help her rush over, and when she saw the house nailed to the wooden board, the old lady anxiously complained to Zhao Shinan: "What are you doing, what happened to deal with it like this?" while instructing the subordinates: "Quickly disassemble, disassemble, how can this work?"

The subordinate looked at Zhao Shinan, whose face was pale, but he didn't dare to move. Zhao Shinan looked at the old lady, her eyes were still empty: "Mother, this woman is in this life, I don't want to see her again." ”

"Why? I know you don't like her, but she's diligent and understanding, and you just never cared about her—" The old lady knew that Zhao Shinan must have found something, and wondered if it was a bracelet, and before Mallow told her that she would find Mrs. Dong's bracelet and send it to Beiping, only saying that it was given by Zhao Lingquan, and Shi Nan would inevitably change her mind. Later, Mrs. Dong's bracelet was sold to the Bai family, and Malallow found a similar one, so was it discovered by Shi Nan?

"She's empathetic?" Zhao Shinan sneered a few times, "She is more than that, she will spend money to hire people, fascinate Heng'er, attract Master Xu of the revolutionary party, and almost take her son away to see the king of Hades." That's how empathetic she is?"

When the old lady Zhao heard these words, it was as if the sky was falling apart, how could it be? Mallow clearly said that she was just going to Beiping to send bracelets, what kind of hired people, drugs, revolutionary party, seeing the king of Hades, the old lady was shocked when she heard this, she opened her mouth slightly and couldn't speak, shook her feet and almost fell down. Aunt Ci hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the old lady.

After a long time, the laughter of the women in the room gradually lowered, and they sang a song in a low voice, and the tune was fragmented: "Picking lotus in Nantang Autumn, lotus flowers over people's heads, fish playing lotus leaves in the west, fish playing lotus leaves in the east-------"

Zhao Shinan shouted coldly: "Tear down the door, go in and plug her mouth and nail it again." ”

The sound in the room stopped abruptly, and Zhao Shinan brushed his sleeves away. Mrs. Zhao was dizzy and almost fainted, and was helped back to the house step by step by her aunt. She fought with people all her life, watched people all her life, and finally looked away and almost killed her son? In an instant, her state of mind grew much older.

Zhao Shinan returned to the house, and for the first time took out the bracelet in his sleeve and looked at it seriously, since the nurse handed the bracelet to him, he had never looked at it carefully, and he had never looked at Du Heng's bracelet carefully, but he had carefully looked at the bracelet of Malvac under the lamp. If he had looked at it carefully, he would have found that this bracelet was far from the one from the one that was marquell, and it was naturally not Du Heng's. But I've been drunk and drunk, and I haven't even looked at it.

Zhao Shinan sat on the chair dejectedly, the wind blew, the pages on the table flew over, and a few pieces fell to the ground, and he didn't have the heart to pick them up. The paper on it blew off, revealing a few telegrams that were pressed by him, how long had he not cared about these, he picked up one easily, it was from Beiping, his heart suddenly pulled up, and he hurriedly pulled out the rest of the pickpockets, all from Beiping, one by one, there were seven or eight letters, he opened it with trembling hands: "Instant money for the winter", there are several such telegrams, and there is a "young grandmother is critically ill", and the last one "young grandma is missing." ”

Zhao Shinan only felt anxious, threw down the telegram and hurriedly packed up, and rushed to Beiping with the jackal feather. There has never been a moment when he was so eager to get closer and closer from Yangzhou to Beiping.

Two days later, Zhao Shinan returned to the house in Beiping, the familiar Shichahai, the familiar alley, the courtyard three feet higher than the surrounding courtyard looked particularly desolate and lonely, Zhao Shinan's heart ached, and strode into the courtyard.

When the subordinates saw Zhao Shinan, they all called: "The young master is back." "A little excited, a little excited. This courtyard is so lonely, and everyone's heart is empty when they are lonely.

Futaba and Dongsang heard the voice, and stood up in a daze, Dongsang opened his mouth full of surprise: "Young Master?"

Zhao Shinan didn't have time to look at them, he went straight to the back bedroom, pushed the door open, and the room was cleaned very cleanly by Futaba, with neatly folded bedding and clean dressing table, but it was empty.

Zhao Shinan's heart turned into emptiness, and he asked in a deep voice: "What about people?" No one answered, Futaba and Dongsang looked at each other, and they hadn't figured out how to explain to Zhao Shinan. "What about people?" Zhao Shinan slammed his fist on the table, his voice roaring desolately.

Futaba stepped forward boldly, closed his eyes, and explained, "Let's go." ”

Zhao Shinan turned around, his eyes were so red that he was dripping blood, and grabbed Futaba's collar: "You say it again, where did you go?"

Dongsang scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry, and he couldn't rush up to snatch people from the young master. Futaba gritted his teeth, and said crisply: "I went to Shanghai." Maybe I went somewhere else, I don't know. ”

Zhao Shinan was about to crush his teeth, looking at Shuangye and eager to remove the skin and bones: "Who put it?" and looked at Dongsang again: "Or you?"

Dong Sang replied anxiously: "Young master, it's me, it's not about Futaba." Zhao Shinan let go of Shuangye and punched Dongsang is punch: "What qualifications do you have to let her go?" Dongsang staggered back, lowered his head and didn't make a sound.

Futaba couldn't help but have red circles in his eyes and said: "Young master, do you know what kind of life the young grandmother lived? After you left, there was not a letter, not a word, in winter, it was frozen like an ice hole, the young grandmother's hands and feet were cold all day long, and her mouth was purple, and Dongsang had to send a few telegrams without charcoal money." You took a concubine in Yangzhou, had a child, the young grandmother couldn't afford to get sick, almost died, was in a coma for a few days and nights, Lang Zhong couldn't pour the medicine with a needle, and you still didn't take a look. The old lady wrote to scold the young grandmother for what corpse, what meal, we didn't understand what it meant, and the young grandmother vomited blood angrily--------"

Zhao Shinan's eyes were closed, his fists were clenched tightly, would his heart still hurt, he once thought that his heart was numb, Yingge Yan danced, wine and meat pierced his intestines, but why did he hear Futaba say Du Heng, his heart was still so painful, as if he was dripping with blood poked by a needle little by little? Thinking of her appearance in pain, he almost suffocated in pain.

Shuangye wiped his tears and choked up: "You are ruthless, you have children in Yangzhou, but the young grandmother can't have her own children in this life, and she will be stunned to make shoes for her children all day long." After saying a few words, I gasped for breath, and I couldn't sleep when I woke up several times in the night, and the whole person was about to run out. If the young grandmother doesn't leave, can she still live?" Seeing that Zhao Shinan didn't speak, he boldly added, "You are here now, and what you see is an empty house, which is better than seeing a less coffin." ”

Dongsang pulled the mulberry leaf vigorously and whispered: "Bah, what coffin, I don't know what to say." ”

Zhao Shinan raised his hand, and his voice was a little hoarse: "You guys go out." Futaba was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly ran out with Dongsang.

Zhao Shinan slowly walked to the dresser, opened the drawers one by one, whether there was any used rouge gouache, there were still a few fallen hairs wrapped around the comb, and in a delicate jewelry box, jade leaves, pearl bracelets, all lying there quietly. Zhao Shinan weakly closed the box, why bother, these things have to be returned to me?

Zhao Shinan walked to the side and opened the door of the wardrobe, full of two rows of tiger head shoes he was dizzy, large and small specifications are different, fine and dense needlework, vivid embroidery, Zhao Shinan only felt that the shoes were overwhelmingly pressed towards him, his heart was confused, it was dark in front of him, he grabbed the door of the wardrobe, and it took a long time to ease up.

Zhao Shinan sat so dumbly, in April in Beiping, the plantain in front of the house was green, and the begonias also bloomed with cascading stamens, but the swing was empty, Zhao Shinan looked out the window, the spring day, and the heart was a winter depression.

Until the evening, Futaba and Dongsang probed their brains a few times, and finally Dongsang dared to ask, "Young Master, do you want to eat something?"

Zhao Shinan raised his hand weakly, called Shuangye in, paused, and asked with difficulty: "What did she say before leaving?"

Futaba thought for a moment and shook his head: "I didn't say anything." Looking at Zhao Shinan's distracted gaze, he thought about it desperately, but still shook his head: "Young grandma just wants us to take care of ourselves and don't worry about her." ”

She was really so ruthless that she didn't leave a word? Can she really let it go? Zhao Shinan's heart hurt so much that she didn't feel it.

Early the next morning, Zhao Shinan went to visit Counselor Xu and wanted to ask Counselor Xu to help inquire if there was any news of Du Heng in Shanghai. Counselor Xu looked at Zhao Shinan, who was haggard, and sighed: "Shinan, you are young and vigorous after all. Not everyone can think of using a conspiracy to resolve it. You shouldn't have failed Madame. ”

Counselor Xu continued: "In addition, Bai Qing of the Revolutionary Party who was caught at your house last time was rescued by someone and heard that he had arrived at the base of the Revolutionary Party. If the lady really has something to do with her, why bother to go to Shanghai, it is not easy to find him directly. ”

The few remaining doubts in Zhao Shinan's heart were shattered by Counselor Xu. Counselor Xu made a few phone calls and asked the important government officials in Shanghai, and through them dredged the joints, until the evening, he inquired about a hotel in Shanghai, registered Du Heng's name, and lived there for three days, and then there was no news. There was no more information than that.

Zhao Shinan didn't know how he got out of Counselor Xu, he was staggering on the road, there were children running and jumping around him, women laughing, men in a hurry, the city was full of spring, the palace walls were smoky, and by his side, he could no longer see her smile.